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	Violet Trefusis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Violet Trefusis (June 6, 1894 – February 29, 1972) was an English writer and socialite.
		Violet lived her early youth in London, where the Keppel family had a house in Portman Square.
		Violet Trefusis may be best remembered today for her lesbian love affair with Vita Sackville-West, having figured in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violet_Trefusis (1051 words)

	Violet Trefusis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Violet lived her early youth in London (London: The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center), where the Keppel family had a house in Portman Square.
		Eventually, after her parent's death in 1947, Violet would become the chatelaine (chatelaine: A chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc.) of L'Ombrellino, till the end of her life.
		After his death, Violet published several novels, some in English, some in French, that she had written in her medieval "Tour" in Saint-Loup-de-Naud in the Seine-et-Marne (Seine-et-Marne: seine-et-marne is a french département, named after the seine and the marne rivermarne...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/violet_trefusis (1334 words)

	The Antigonish Review
		In a sense, it did destroy her: the youthful Violet whose idealism burned with a pure bright flame was transformed into a femme de lettres and femme du monde, who would embrace and conquer - supreme irony - the society which she had thought to reject, the society which was her heritage.
		Violet was, as Glendinning points out in her TLS review of A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis by Henrietta Sharpe, a fantasist.
		Vacillation occurred but Violet was resigned to loneliness and social ostracism and homelessness in the capitals of Europe which for all their joys and pleasures remained empty to her.
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	Playing by the Rules
		Harold took his wife's affairs in stride, or benignly referred to them as her ''muddles.'' Violet was the only one Harold viewed as a threat or a rival.
		Violet and her little sister, Sonia, curtsied to the visitor and called him ''Grandpapa'' or ''Kingy.'' ''As a child, I saw Mama in a blaze of glory, resplendent in a perpetual tiara,'' Violet would write as an adult.
		Violet had loved Vita unswervingly since they were in their early teens -- two proud, lonely, bookish girls raised in aristocratic households with ineffectual fathers, and mothers who used their sexual charms like venture capital.
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	Orlando: A Biography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vita's mother was not pleased at the writing of the novel, because she believed the story was too plain in its meaning, and she would call Virginia the "virgin wolf" henceforth.
		Violet Trefusis's reply would be a more conventional roman à clef (Broderie Anglaise), which loses much of its interest if the reader does not know the background, whereas Orlando remains a captivating novel, even if the reader does not know the identity of the person in the photographs in the book.
		This was not to be, however, as the book is invariably called a "novel" (while Woolf called it a "biography"), and is shelved in the "fiction" section of libraries and bookshops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography (737 words)

	The world's top violet trefusis websites
		Violet Trefusis (born 6 June 1894, died March 1972) was an English lesbian writer and socialite.
		Probably hardly anybody would still remember Violet Trefusis today if her love affair with Vita Sackville-West wouldn't have figured in Virginia Woolfs novel Orlando, a romanticised biography of Vita in the title role, under a seducive layer of phantasy and irony: Violet appears in it as the slavonic Princess Sasha.
		From 1923 on Violet became involved with Winnaretta, daughter of Isaac Singer, who introduced her to the artistic beau-monde in Paris - Violet conceding more and more to her mother's model.
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	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Violet Trefusis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in london as Violet Keppel, Trefusis was a clever and spoilt child in a rich Edwardian family.
		In 1919 Violet had a disastrous marriage to cavalry officer Denys Robert Trefusis, nonetheless their marriage lasted until the death of Denys ten years later.
		Trefusis returned in England during the WWII but later lived in France and in Italy, moving in the upper-class expatriate communities there, and dying in Florence.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biot2/tref1.html (186 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Gypsies and lesbian desire: Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf
		She wanders through writings by Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Woolf, allusive, evasive, and teasing, a figure around whom fantasies and desires coalesce.
		The tentative identification with the gypsies in Sackville-West's letter to Woolf is an undercurrent in all three writers, a tug toward "gypsiness" that functions, I argue, as a hint of same-sex desire.
		When Violet Trefusis imagined herself and was imagined as a gypsy, for example, the perceived passionate heterosexuality of the gypsy woman might act as protective coloring, but as we shall see, it also highlights her deliberate performance of an ultrafeminine role.
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	Amazon.de: Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"[Violet] knew the moves and attitudes but her performance was caricature." A discerning dual biography and peek into Edwardian mores that popular history readers will certainly enjoy.
		Violet disdained the compromises at which her mother excelled and which Vita and Harold Nicholson...
		Violet hasn't inherited her mother's ability to make the best of whatever social situation she's in.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312195176 (1056 words)

	Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places
		Violet Keppel was born in 1894, daughter of the Honourable Mrs George Keppel but George, third son of
		Whilst it is not impossible that Violet was the daughter of the then Prince of Wales, she is believed to have been the natural daughter of Lord Grimthorpe.
		Denys and Violet's relationship was a stormy one; it lasted ten years, until his death.
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	Vita Sackville-West - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1913, she married Harold Nicolson, a diplomat, journalist, broadcaster, member of Parliament and author of biographies and novels.
		Her own most famous affair was with Violet Trefusis.
		Lesser known during her lifetime was an affair with Virginia Woolf.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /v/vi/vita_sackville_west.html (164 words)

	Amazon.fr : Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Violet disdained the compromises at which her mother excelled and which Vita and Harold Nicholson adapted to sustain both their marriage and their separate homosexual affairs.
		She found herself irretrievably isolated by her disdain of the conventions of post- Edwardian society; by her mother, who negotiated a scandal-masking marriage for Violet with Denis Trefusis that became a scandal in itself; and worst of all by Vita, her whole raison d'ˆtre.
		And she lets Violet go almost uncritically, viewing her as a victim, when events could be read to portray her as more manipulative and active than Souhami allows.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/0312155948/reviews (1045 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Gypsies and lesbian desire: Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Trefusis's version of this encounter, it was the middle-class woman who was "serene"; here, the gypsy's serenity suggests that from her perspective, domesticity is an entertaining place to visit, but not a particularly desirable choice.
		Warner, unlike Trefusis, acknowledges that her class and status mean that she will never be a gypsy, but there is a sense of wistful fellow-feeling here, recognition of a shared waywardness, as the poet gives this traveler some boots, in the last lines, so that she may "wander on" (12).
		In their representations and others from this period, the gypsy, who both chooses to remain marginal and is consigned to that position, suggests an ambiguity about the desirability of seeking escape and exile versus the possibility of being consigned to it.
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		Violet’s mother, herself once mistress to King Edward VII, a tribute to propeity (she probably would not be proud of the way Camilla has carried on the royal family tradition), and an equally strong figure in Violet’s life (mommy!), tried to end the affair by forcing Violet to marry, which she did.
		Yet, the ramifications of such a situation were not enough to stop Violet from being honest with everyone about her feelings, about herself, though she lived very much in a fairy tale existence to begin with.
		Violet taught me that being honest about one’s feelings is more important than appearances, no matter the outcome.
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	GLAAD: PBS Alters Gay and Lesbian History
		Many of the scenes that show the intimacy and the joy in their relationship have been cut in the edited version, which presents their involvement as a sex-filled, tortuous affair.
		The edits are specifically designed to imply that Vita's involvement with Violet is merely a reaction to Vita learning that her husband, Harold Nicolson, was homosexual.
		While the unedited version of the miniseries revolves around the women, Cooke's monologue focuses on the conflict in their relationship and its damaging effects on the marriage.
	www.glaad.org /media/archive_detail.php?id=289 (549 words)

	Behind the Name: View Comments
		Violet was the name of the character Brooke Shields played in the movie "Pretty Baby".
		Violet Parr is a character in the movie "The Incredibles." Her powers are invisibilty and forcefields.
		Violet Trefusis was an English writer and socialite.
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	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 84022358 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Publisher description for Violet Trefusis : a biography, including correspondence with Vita Sackville-West / Philippe Jullian and John Phillips.
		A remarkable woman in her own right and a highly gifted writer, Violet Trefusis is especially remembered for her scandalous affair with Vita Sackville-West, first disclosed in Portrait of a Marriage.
		The letters from Violet reveal, as nowhere else in her writing, the depth of her feelings for Vita.
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	Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West
		Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West
		The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West
		Trefusis, Violet Keppel,, 1894-1972, Correspondence, Sackville-West, V, (Victoria),, Biography / Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Correspondence, 20th century, Women novelists, English
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	Abbeys Bookshop - Moments of Truth: Twelve Essays on Twentieth Century Writers
		Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, Christina Stead, Djuna Barnes, Violet Trefusis, Jane Bowles, Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Brooke-Rose, Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter.Women who moved in literary circles in the first half of the 20th century were "helpmeets or patrons, muses or mistresses, not artists in their own right".
		Other writers never found themselves a home - Violet Trefusis's stylish comedies which dissect the heart of extraordinary privilege to reveal unfreedom, mocked her own talent and are now seldom remembered.This book looks at the process by which particular books - and whole writing lives - materialized against the odds.
		This collection of highly accessible essays on the most influential women writers of the first half of the last century is a mixture of close reading with a sensitivity to nuances, and biographical exploration.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items/21/57/07 (379 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| Portrait of a Marriage
		Vita and Violet decide to spend their lives together.
		Lady Sackville blames Harold for Vitas running away and says that Denys and Violet are truly man and wife in all senses of the word.
		Following an angry confrontation, Harold tells Vita that Violet has been unfaithful to her.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/135/252e.html (76 words)

	Vita Sackville-West - a biographical note
		She herself caused something of a scandal by having a very public affair with Violet Keppel, the daughter of Alice Keppel, Edward VII's mistress.
		Their affair continued after Violet married and became Violet Trefusis in 1919.
		Their husbands Denys Trefusis and Harold Nicolson travelled to Paris together and persuaded their wives to return to their homes.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/vs-west.htm (892 words)

	PopcornQ Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the women are on their way to the South of France, the men decide to follow and bring them back home.
		Vita is portrayed as very ambivalent; incapable of hurting Harold because of her tender, sweet nature and incapable of forgetting Violet because she is passionately in love with her.
		Since this reflects the point of view of Vita's son, Nigel Nicholson (he wrote the book that the film is based on), it is understandable that he was happy his parents found one another again.
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	Violet Trefusis Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Violet Trefusis' in the Database.
		You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
		All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Violet-Trefusis/1 (64 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| Portrait of a Marriage
		In 1920, seven years into their marriage, Vita Sackville-West, author and aristocrat, and her husband Harold Nicolson, diplomat and historian, face a heart-wrenching crisis when she begins an affair with her friend Violet Keppel.
		Vita tells Harold that she and Violet plan to go abroad.
		At Christmas-time, Harold begs Vita to come home, but she and Violet remain in the South of France.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/135/135e.html (91 words)

	A solitary woman
		A solitary woman: a life of Violet Trefusis
		Don't look around (Violet Trefusis; with an introduction by Peter Quennell; ISBN: 067084067X; $23.00 (Canada $29.99); 97% match)
		Violet Trefusis ([by] Philippe Jullian and John Phillips; ISBN: 0241894549; 2% match)
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	Violet Jacobs by Carol Anderson, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0862412242
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	Loganberry Books: Sharon's Nocturnal Reads
		Violet had a deeply emotional and turbulent relationship with Vita.
		Violet Gordon Woodhouse was a woman of many passions and incredible musical talent.
		Her mastery of the harpsichord led her to revive the early music of Bach, Scarlatti and Purcell, and her music salons were attended by the most important artists of the day: Picasso, Diaghilev, Rodin, TE Lawrence, Bartok, Ezra Pound and Vaughan Williams.
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